Believe it or not ... building an opt-in Taiwan email address is STEP 1, not the website.
Don't make the same mistake 95% of marketers make.
Your Three Top priorities...Right NOW are to:
build your list Build Your Taiwan email address!
No ifs ands or buts!
Firstly, you must Create a Splash Page with a free offer that will entice "your particular" niche enthusiasts to give you their name and Taiwan email address.
In all reality, your own personal website can come later.
At this time (the beginning of your marketing career) don't concern yourself with anything else but List Building.
Your Website: Now you can create your website. So your 2nd concern is generating traffic to that website when it is finally created.
Writing Articles, Joining Forums in your niche, Linking are some of the free ways to accomplish traffic generation.
More on the techniques and strategies concerning the above will come later.
Next Step
So you have your website and the next question should be:
What should you have on every page of that website?
Answer: An Opt-in form.
I'm as serious as a Heart Attack and a MAJOR Stroke combined. Your Opt-in Form should be on every page of your website, it gives the surfer/visitor multiple chances to Opt-in to your service, free report, Taiwan email address etc.
I don't know what you've been told in the past but the above steps Blows Everything Else Out Of The Water when creating a presence on the internet and garnering Opt-ins.
Another issue: Your Affiliate Website
This is not your website ... it's the Company's Website ... you want to create your own presence, your own piece of internet RealEstate ...not The Affiliate's Program "Website".
Think about it...whose being promoted on this site? Is it a great Program? I hope so ... but don't hit me, the prospect, with it initially. Treat a prospect like a First Date. On your first date with a beautiful young lady, does she pay for dinner, does she pay for a very posh restaurant meal, does she pay for the theater tickets, concert tickets etc.?
Of course not ... you pay pal lol
The same is somewhat true with a prospect...in our case...you offer a HIGH VALUED FREEBIE in exchange for their name and Taiwan email address...if they agree...you have your opt-in.
Once they're on your list you can then inform them about your Affiliate Website(s). Better yet, you can send them to your very own website which includes links to the various Affiliate Programs you belong to.
Your affiliate page is not your business and it is not your website. Why waste your time and money on building someone else's business? Even if you never get a single signup, they will benefit greatly from having thousands of reps like yourself advertising their business.
And the other reason is that affiliate pages are very rarely good sales pages, which means you need to sell people first, before you send them to your affiliate page.
Do NOT promote your affiliate link directly in your ads.
Send people FIRST to your OWN website or splash page and GIVE them valuable information that THEY need. Free valuable information that they can use be it a free report, free Taiwan email address, free software etc.
It's an indisputable fact that your response and your profits from whatever you are promoting will multiply if you promote it via YOUR OWN website or splash page.